Tally-card.



No. 865,795. PATBNTED SEPT. 10, 1907.

E. D. MCKBNNA.

TALLY GARD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.5.1906.

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To all whom it may concern: 1'

Be it known that I, EDWARD D. MCKENNA, 'a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn'.A 'in the county of Kings and State oi New York, have invented `1iw`a11d useful Improvements in Tally-Cards, oi' which the following is a. specification.

My invention relates to tally cards for scoring games of cards and has for its object the arrangement of a tally card such as will receive coupons which are awarded the winners of tle game at each table or for each game Aas will be hereinfater more fully explained in the following speeication set forth in the claim and illustrated iri the accompanying drawings.

The same reference characters are used in the various figures o the drawing to designate identical parts.

Figure i is a face view of my improved tally card. Fig. 2 is a face view olthe coupon card. `Fig. 3 is a face view of the tally card withseverai oi the coupons detached'and inserted in their proper places. Fig. 4 is a view of the card as folded with part of its back exposed.

My improved tally card muy be made oi paper or card-board or any desired material but is preferably of the design and shape shown in the dra-wings and is adapted to be folded at its center along the rouletted line It may also be provided with perforations G to receive a cord so th-.\t it may be attached to the person of the user to prevent its being lost.

Along the length oi the card are arranged a series of slits 7 which are grouped in pairs, onef'set of slits being longer, than their companion slits 8 as will be hereinafter more fully explained. These slits may be oi any desired number but for convenience of illustration ten sets are shown although a greater or less number may be used. In the space between each pair oi slit-s are arranged numbers running from one upward and these numb'ers designate the games which are to be played.

The coupons which are'illustrated in Fig. 2 are originally arranged as one card and' :1re supposed to be leit on a certain table or used for one game and in case oi the game oi euchre these coupons are arranged in pairs to be torn ofi when the game is finished, each oi the two win- .ners out of the four players taking one oi the coupons which is inserted in one of the sets oi slits in the tally card. `It will be seen that the coupons are also numbered and each card oi coupons is numbered to be leit at u certain table, the coupon card shown in the drawing being intended for table #91, and all players who reach that table and play there, contest for the two coul pons from the card during the game which is being played and which is designated on the -various sets oi coupons.

In the game oi eue-hre this tally card'is used as iollows: As betere stated one of the coupon cards 9 is Specification of Letters Patent Application -tiled September 5, 1906.

Patented sept. 1o, 1.9.07.

Serial No. {$33,378}

placed on veach of the tables used by the contestants,

each player having one oi the tally cardsv 10 and on the completion oi the first game the two winners tear off the lower coupons labeled l Game 1 each inserting his coupon in #1 slits in the tally card'. The following players after they have contested in the second game at table'#91 tear ofi' the second set oi coupons labeled Game 2 the winners retaining themand inserting them in the slits #2. The slits 7 in the tally card being longer than the slit 8 therein will permit the coupon card 9 to be readily inserted in the longer slit, and securely held in place by the shorter slit 8. This `method is proceeded. wit-l1 untilthe ten games are played and the coupons are all used boing` inserted in the cards of the various players who have played at table #91. A specimen card is shown in Fig. 3 where it would be seen that the holder of this tally card has lost the first game presumably at table S5, has won the seeond and third games at tables 85 and SG, the iii'th game at table S7, the eighth' game at table 88 and the tenth game at table 89 showing at a glance that the holder of this tally card has won live out of the ten gaines he has played. I Y

On the back of the card may be arranged certain space giving the number of the table and designating the players partner also a space to record the number oi games won and for the signature oi the holder of the ciu-(l.

This tally card is not limited to the game of euchre alone but there are other games in which it may be used and it is obvious that by slight alteration of the slits, the printing-and the number oi coupons the same may be used in other games.

This tally card insures a fair and just counting o the games wou and renders any cheating impossible.

wlmi'. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is n i A hilly curd comprising the holder with n series of slits formed therein in parallel pair-.s to provide straps between the sume, one slit oi' auch pair being longer than the other. :md each strap being numbered consecutively. und a: cord provided with a double row et detuchulxie coupons. each row of coupons having numbers correspondim; with the numbers on the straps, said coupons being also provided with at table number, Suid coupons scrvm,r to be connected under the straps iryA inserting the coupons through the slits, .sold holder having a central rouletl'ed line to permit of folding und suid holder also huvingu perforation arranged on opposite sides of the rouletted line. substfintially :is speciiiod.

1n testimony whereof, l :mix my .signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses 'inroruy JAMES MCDoNALD, Ansmann cfinriuim.. 

